Year 2000 Preparation Archive

Community Preparation

Here is an interesting US Gov. site. The regionalmap has links to contacts in different parts of the US. It would be interesting to get more of the community meetings between forum members and the contacts provided on the map.

Today, I tried something that has been on my mind. I wrote an informational piece (too long, I'm afraid), got a "hotmailaddress", used Yahoo People search (http://people.yahoo.com/) to locate folks in my area.

I ran across this fascinating account and thought others might appreciate reading it. If you'd like to know what a "shelter" is like during a disaster, how people responded, etc., I suggest you take the time to read this.

Preparing for the possible havoc computer systems could wreak at midnight New Year's Eve, the Milwaukee Public Schools will be prepared to open many of its schools as emergency shelters if needed, administrators said Wednesday.

Please tell me of successful attempts to get people to gether to prepare for the post Y2K fallout - I don't want to be hiding in my house waiting for it to end. What types of grassroots activity are other people doing? s